Representative image of a black and white triptych layout. (Image Credits: Leonardo.ai)
A Boston College professor reached the 30th anniversary of his art project in 2017, containing self-portraits he took nearly every day for three decades. Baden, who joined the faculty at Boston College in 1989, has integrated the lifelong project directly into his academic curriculum. Through the project, there has been only one instance when Baden forgot to take a picture, which occurred on October 15, 1991, while commuting between lectures at Boston College and the Rhode Island School of Design.
Karl Baden launched the project on February 23, 1987, the day after American artist Andy Warhol’s death.Baden’s lifelong endeavor, titled “Every Day,” is quite self-explanatory, as it records human mortality and the gradual day-to-day progression of the natural aging process. “I try to make every picture as close to the last one as possible. I use the same camera, the same film, the same lighting, the same backdrop, the same facial expression,” he explained to Boston College . For Baden, the project is the study of tiny, daily changes; his methodology remains unhampered by travel, and the photographs are sustained through a portable photo kit that approximates technical consistency away from home. He gives students a unique assignment by providing them his portrait taken on the day they were born, with the task of altering the image to reflect their birth. You use AI every day. Now get your AI Quotient. Take the AIQ test.
